A second X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) made its first flight from Edwards Air Force Base recently.

It was also a test of Build 2.0 of the UCAV control software, which includes greater autonomy, the ability for human controllers to command multiple vehicles simultaneously, and "point-click-kill" capability.

Posted by jjwiseman at December 12, 2002 10:42 PM

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While I understand that their control software is likely a brilliant piece of engineering, the project makes me feel sad and depressed.

Beautiful piece of technology. It makes me so happy to see that we are moving in the right direction. Industrial revolution allowed us to automate most of our services. Now we are automating even more service like military and government with the help of computers. Computation is cool.